Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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TEMPLE HISTORY cont. • In 1962, Columbia Records released the Glorious Sound of Christmas record with t he Philadelphia Orchestra and Temple University Concert Choir. It became the fastest selling classical album in the history of LP ' s. • In 1924, Temple tried to get Knute Rockne to coach the Owls. •Latin and Greek were entrance requirements in 18 l )4. •During a tour of Europe in 1898, Russell Conwell wrote that he missed Philadelphia pretzels. •Gertrude D. Peabodv, the first Dean of Women, complained in 1930 about student behavior on the steps of the dormitory at night. She stated, Such wholesale and unabashed love-making is a bit over- whelming even to Park Avenue. •A street in Hatorey, Puerto Rico is named Temple University. •In 1910, with Temple deeply, in debt, Russell Conwell proposed selling the University ' s real estate. He wanted to move the campus to what would become the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, with land provided by the city and facilities by the state. The Department of Sports Management and Leisure Studies introduced a new major this year. Undergraduates can now receive a Bachelor of Science degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management which will prepare them for management positions in the theater, sport, restaurant and hotel industries. Internship experience, at places like the Academy of Music, Mariott Hotels, and Walt Disney World, is an integral part of the program. Students can pursue also a minor in business from the school of Business and Management. The School of Business and Management also added a new major. Students can now major in Entrepreneurship, a program chaired by David Deeds. Students are taught such skills as marketing, analyzing financial research, and presentation planning. Because the slots are few in the Entrepreneurship program, all of the students are evaluated at forty-five credits to decide their suitability to the major. - Jen Schnabel

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•In Philadelphia Magazine ' s 30 Best Colleges issue, they stated, You know you ' re a Temple Student when you love bragging that your crime stats are lower than Penn ' s. •Temple famous alums: Bill Cosby, David Brenner, Bob Saget, Lynne Abraham, John Street, Dailv News editor Zach Stalberg, WPEN,WMGK,WMMR general manager Dennis Begley, Advanta CEO Dennis Alter, and Jones New York CEO Sideny Kimmel. •Temple ' s main campus is nearly the size of Europe ' s smallest country, Vatican City. •John Phillip Sousa conducted two concerts at the Academy of Music in 1902 for the benefit of Temple ' s debt fund. •In 1881, P.T. Barnum ' s Greatest Show on Earth was held at Broad Street and Columbia Avenue (now Cecil B. Moore Ave.). •The bells in the Bell Tower were forged in the Netherlands. •In the first year of World War II, 1,600 students dropped out of Temple to enter the service. Seven thousand war vets enrolled in 1946 for the fall term.

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•In the early 1930 ' s, track and field legend Jesse Owens wrote a letter to T.U. coach Ben Ogden expressing an interest in attending Temple. •The base of the Bell Tower has an encasement of gypsum rocks brought from the farm of Ali Hafed in Pakistan, the source of Conwell ' s inspiration for his famous Acres of Diamonds speech. •The Templar yearbook takes it name from the Knights Templars, the order established in the 12th century in Jerusalem to protect pilgrims and the holy Sepulcher. The name signifies high ideals and service. •The football Owls were undefeated in 1934. - Mandy Feingold